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A Rhode Island Democrat Threatened ICE Agents — DHS Responded by Listing the Criminals He Wants to Protect

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That’s a partial list. DHS posted several more. Each one a real person who committed a real crime against a real victim — and each one the kind of person that Enrique Sanchez apparently wants to keep in the United States rather than see deported.

Let’s be direct about what “your day of reckoning will come” directed at federal law enforcement officers actually is. 18 U.S.C. § 115 prohibits threatening federal law enforcement officers with intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with them in the performance of their duties. Sanchez isn’t a private citizen venting anonymously online. He is an elected state representative — a public official — making explicit threats against federal agents on a public platform. That’s not protected political speech. That’s a federal statute with real penalties attached.

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